>> john yang, carver, minnesota, tonight. john, thanks. >>> the ceo of gm said today it's possible there could be even more recalls beyond the 20 million vehicles already affected by this series of problems the company has identified. in an exclusive live interview with matt lauer on "today," mary barra talked about the issue that started it all, those faulty ignition switches that have been linked to at least 13 deaths. she was asked if the company has tried to hide the problem. >> i don't really think there was a cover-up. i think what we had -- and it was covered in the report -- there were silos of information. so people had bits and pieces and then didn't come forward with information or didn't act with a sense of urgency. and it's simply unacceptable. >> that report she was talking about there was commissioned by gm. it cited a memo from 13 years ago by a company engineer who discussed an ignition problem. >>> we learned today howard baker has died. he was an american politician, a veteran senator and what we used to cal

john yang starting off our reporting from there. john, thanks. >>> this system, of course, is hitting beyond nebraska, there's damage in parts of minnesota, wisconsin. the worry is flooding in parts of iowa, south dakota where roads and farmlands were with swamped, trees and power lines taken down by strong winds and the threat of this weather continues now including people in nebraska. mike seidel on the ground in pilger tonight. hey, mike. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. here in pilger, the national weather service surveyed the damage today, they found some areas of ef-4 damage. that's not surprising when you look at houses like this one behind me. they're completely off their foundations. now, we're still waiting on the specifics, how long was the tornado on the ground? how wide was the damage path. an ef-4 rating puts those wind gusts between 166 and 200 miles an hour. more than 54 million americans back in the danger zone tonight. we have another storm coming out of the plains, this is going to increase the threa

john yang is along the mississippi river in st. paul tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. i'm on a walkway along the mississippi river, but as you can see, i'm actually in the mississippi river. the river is swollen by rain and still rising. and flooding is just one of the weather extremes this region has been dealing with. >> tornado! look at it! >> reporter: violent summer storms tracked through the midwest this week. in indiana, tornados. in minnesota, record rain and widespread flooding. across the region, thousands have been driven out of their homes. and the ef-1 tornado touched down in southwestern indianapolis late tuesday, ripping the siding off several houses. >> and i could see it starting to form. and it wasn't maybe two minutes later, i started seeing debris everywhere. >> reporter: from minnesota to ohio, flash flood warnings. >> at least up to my knees down the street. >> incredible. because this doesn't happen -- you get a little flooding in the spring, but this is unbelievable right here. >> reporter: torrent

john yang, nbc news, chicago. >>> by the way, this drought isn't limited to just the u.s. coffee prices are on the rise quickly because of unprecedented drought in brazil. the world's largest coffees producer. starbucks is set to raise prices starting tomorrow morning on some of its products from 10 to 15 cents following moves by dunkin donuts and folgers which have raised prices by about 9%. >>> now to an issue that affects every american family. the basic struggle between work life and home life and finding a way to balance it all for those who can. today the president took up the issue. what just might be an opening salvo to win over a critical voting block. we get our report tonight from our senior white house correspondent chris jansing. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. what's being talked about tonight are kitchen table issues that impact nearly every american. will i get paid for maternity leave? can i take time off to care for a sick child or parent? as is often the case here, the answers get tied up in politics. chris gardner works at outdoor gear c

john yang is in what is left of things. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this is what three quarters of the buildings look like tonight. absolutely flattened. two people died, including a 5-year-old girl and more than a dozen people were injured, all because of a devastating hit by a rare and deadly tornado. >> captured on camera, a twin tornado, sometimes called sisters. two funnels descending from a single storm cell, cutting a doubly broad path of destruction across northeastern nebraska. >> do you see the tornado? >> oh, gosh. >> reporter: ben mcmillan thought he had seen everything. >> either of them would be a dangerous and violent thing by themselves. to have both of them together was shocking. the power and the motion when it was over the city and around the city was really incredible. >> reporter: and so with the devastation in this town, less than one square mile, and home to some 370 residents. >> the business district is gone. city hall is gone, the fire department's destroyed. public library's received severe damage. >> reporter: the tornado l

john yang reports from st. paul, minnesota. >> tornado! come on! >> reporter: violent summer storms track through the midwest this week. in indiana tornadoes. in minnesota record rain and widespread flooding. across the region thousands have been driven out of their homes. an ef-1 tornado touched down in southwestern indianapolis late tuesday ripping the siding off several houses. >> i could see it starting to form, and it wasn't maybe two minutes later i started seeing debris everywhere. >> reporter: from minnesota to ohio, flash flood warnings. >> at least up to my knees, down the street. >> incredible because this doesn't happen. you get a little flooded in the spring, but this is unbelievable right here. >> reporter: torrential stormdz, downed trees and power lines. disrupting even the most important plans. this is the wettest june on record in the twin cities area. more than 25 inches of rain so far prompting 35 counties to declare emergencies. >> to have river flooding like this in june is completely out of the ordinary and something our comm

nbc's john yang reports from st. paul, minnesota. >> reporter: violent summer storms track through the midwest this week. in indiana, tornadoes. in minnesota, record rain and widespread flooding. across the region, thousands have been driven out of their homes. and ef-1 tornado touched down in minneapolis. >> i seen it started to form. two minutes later i see debris every. >> reporter: from minnesota to ohio, flash flood warnings. >> up to my knees down the street. >> incredible. this doesn't happen. you get flooding in the spring but unbelievable right here. >> torrential storms downed trees and power lines and disrupting the most important plans. more than 25 inches of rain so far prompting 35 counties to declare imagines. >> to have river flooding like this in june is completely out of the ordinary and something our communities never seen before. >> reporter: a wet spring and early summer have swollen rivers in four states. dozens of river gauges are reporting flooding. in st. paul, the mississippi river is alread

nbc's john yang reports. >> reporter: today, more communities across northeast nebraska showing the scarsrnado activity overurse see, much less populated than pilger, the community that was wiped out by that twin tornado earlier in the week. >> my estimation is 75%, maybe even 80% total destruction of this village. >> reporter: today, we are also learning more details about the victims of that tornado outbreak. one of them was a 5-year-old girl named calista dixon. she was in her family's mobile home when the tornado hit. she was with her mother, candy murfree, who is now in critical condition with severe head trauma. candy's mother released a statement saying her little granddaughter wanted to be a doctor so she could help care for people. she adds, she hopes that god has a job for her now. in pilger today, heavy equipment moving in by the national guard and the nebraska emergency management, as they literally start the job of picking up after the tornado. john yang, nbc news, coalridge, nebraska. >>> a team is being sent to assess damage in a southern ontario community that was hit by a

nbc's john yang has more from st. paul. >> reporter: i'm standing on what's usually a little walking path along the mississippi river. as you can see, i'm now in the mississippi river. it has risen above 20 feet. that's the highest it's been in 15 years. >> incredible. this doesn't happen. you get a little flooding in the spring but this is unbelievable right here. >> forecasters expect it to crest later this evening at the seventh highest level on record. the current so strong, so much water moving so fast and so much debris being swept down the river that barge traffic has come to a virtual halt. even though the water will start receding later this evening, this water is not going to go anywhere any time fast. forecasters say it won't drop below flood level until at least several days after july 4th. back to you. >> that was john yang reporting for us. parts of eastern new york also dealing with flooding and landslides. volunteers scrambled to put up a barrier to protect columns. heavy rains overwhelmed culverts 30

nbc's john yang is along the river in minnesota. >> reporter: craig, the river here in st. paul has now passed -- minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. and these days, it seems like all of them are overflowing. and rivers, too. in delano, the waters of the crow river have been an unwelcomed visitors. >> you get a little flooding in the spring. but this is unbelievable. >> reporter: other parts of the country are inundated with rain, too, like arlington, texas. fast-moving heavy storms triggered flash floods that forced a theme park six flags over texas and hurricane harbor to shut down. in minnesota, the twin cities is having its wettest june on record, nearly 11 inches of rain so far. for the first half of the year, more than 25 inches, nearly 80% the average for a full year. >> this is not good. but we're tough people. we can handle it. >> reporter: across the state, damage is being measured in the millions of dollars. hundreds of acres of crops are under water. >> the farm impact is horrific. >> reporter: even some of life's most important moments have been dis

nbc's john yang has the latest. john, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt, that's right. more nebraska communities showing the battle scars of tornadoes overnight. this morning, we are learning more details about the deadly twin tornado. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: overnight, a new outbreak of tornadoes ripped through nebraska, hitting hard in farmland communities in the northeast part of the state. the national weather service tracked two large tornadoes near the towns of coleridge and laurel, nebraska. these latest twisters striking just 30 miles from the ef-4 tornado that devastated the tiny village of pilger on monday. >> i just came back through the town. in my estimation it's 75%, maybe even 80% total destruction of this village. >> reporter: 5-year-old calista "cali" dixon was killed when the rare twin twisters touched down. she was with her mother, kandi murphree, and 4-year-old sister, robin, inside a mobile home. murphree was critically injured. robin escaped with a few scrapes. the fa

john yang is in pilger, nebraska, where the massive cleanup is just beginning.ng, natalie. it is going to be a massive cleanup effort. there's a sheriff that just gave us a briefing. a sobering briefing. 75% of this community's buildings are gone. 100% of the central business district, gone. gone, the school, the fire house, the church. he said the majority of the buildings that are still standing will have to come down because they're not safe. this was a devastating tornado. the twin tornadoes as you say. two tornadoes coming out of one storm cell skipping across this northeastern corner of nebraska. 16 people are critically injured from this community. 2 people have been killed. one of them a 5-year-old. one in a traffic accident which they suspect may have been related to the tornado, but they aren't ready to say that yet. the residents are about to be let in to take a look at what's left, try to reclaim what they can, and start the recovery and rebuilding efforts. >> john yang in pilger, nebraska. thank you, john. >>> president obama held a late night meeti

trump in just a moment, but first, nbc's john yang is in chicago to fill us in. hn, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. you can see how prominent it is in downtown chicago, a prime spot along the chicago river. this is a debate about art, about taste, aesthetics, and given the personalities involved, some might dare i say some towering egos, too. in this corner, billionaire developer donald trump, never shy about leaving his mark. >> you're fired. >> reporter: in the other corner, chicago mayor rahm emanuel, the former white house chief of staff, no shrinking violet himself. the stakes, five 20-foot-high stainless steel letters spelling out trump's name on his 96-story condo and hotel tower. at night, it glows. blair cayman, the pulitzer prize winning architectural critic is leading the charge against the sign. >> it's the lack of subtlety, the brashness, the egotistical overstatement, all the things that we expected of trump are coming to roost. >> reporter: the donald says it will be like the hollywood sign, an icon. the mayor says it's an archite

>> all right, john yang in chicago. donald trump is with us now by phone. donald, good morning. >> good morning. >> so we conducted a little survey here, donald. i'll give you the results of that in just a second. have you and mayor emanuel spoken directly about this issue? >> no, we haven't, but this is fully approved. everybody knew about it. his administration knew about it. the previous approved it. and this has been approved for a long period of time. >> there are other building you have around the country that you've got your name on. i was in las vegas recently. you've got a building just adjacent to the strip there. big trump name up top of that. trump tower on fifth avenue, you've got your name down low by fifth avenue, but not up high. what are the rules? how do you decide when you do this and when you don't? >> well, i look at the building, it's very important architecturally to me. this has turned out to be a great piece of architecture. a great thing for chicago. i do great buildings. and if i like the building, if i like what's going on, if it

nbc's john yang has the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the national weather service said this was an ef-1 tornado. winds up to 100 miles an hour. let me step out of way and show you what those winds can do. that camper started on the other side of the neighbor's house. it was fully packed ready for a trip. the wind picked it up, carried it 150 feet. that's half a football field. before dropping it on the house and into the front yard.ç >> tornado! >> reporter: across the midwest it's been a week of duck and cover. day after day of violent weather forced people to seek shelter. from the storms. >> it was horrifying. the house shook. it was a loud boom. it scared me really bad. >> reporter: giant trees toppled, homes and rvs torn apart as the latest twister cut a path through the southwest corner of indianapolis. don rackley lives in one of the worst-hit neighborhoods. he grabbed his two young grandsons and ran into the bathroom with the tornado bearing down. >> as i closed the door, i heard a big boom. the only thing i was cared about was

let's get right to nbc's john yang along the river in st. paul this morning. john, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. this morning the river has just passed the 20-foot mark. that's the highest it's been in almost 15 years, and it's still rising. and the current is so strong, the water moving so fast and so much debris being swept down the river that barge traffic has come to a virtual halt. minnesota's known as the land of 10,000 lakes, and these days, it seems like all of them are overflowing. and rivers, too. in delano, the waters of the crow river have been an unwelcomed visitor. >> you get a little flooding in the spring, but this is unbelievable right here. >> reporter: other parts of the country are inundated with rain, too, like arlington, texas. fast-moving, heavy storms triggered flash floods that forced the theme park six flags over texas and hurricane harbor to shut down. in minnesota, the twin cities is having its wettest june on record, nearly 11 inches of rain so far. through the first half of the year, more than 25 inches,

savannah. >> tough times there, john yang, thank you. we got few details this morning in the subpoena for that missing malaysia airlines flight. officials now saying the plane was very likely on auto pilot when it crashed into the indian ocean. let's get to nbc's tom costello. he has been on the story since the start. good morning to you. >> reporter: investigators are mapping out the likely path of malaysia flight 3 seven. . they say all the evidence says it was on auto pilot and it crashed when it ran out of fuel, probably hundreds of miles from where they were looking. they will refocus an area called the seventh arc, they draw based on the plane's last satellite contact with that orbiting satellite. they think the plane is within 2003 miles to the west and 35 mills to the east of the arc. now they say it's likely the plane was on auto pilot the entire time it was flying over the ocean because the data suggested appears to have been such a straight path. here's the australian deputy prime minister today. >> it is highly, highly likely

yang to the families >> do not send your children to the border. if they do make it they'll get sent back. importantly they may not make it. >> this week, house speaker john boehner threatened to sue president obama over use of executive orders he says it's crossed the line saying we elected a president. we didn't elect a monarch or son. >> what i've told speaker boehner is that if you're really concerned about me taking too many executive actions why not just try to get something done through congress? >> president obama has been venturing out and about these days, walking to starbucks, lunch at chipotle saying the bear is on the loose he admitted he files cooped up at the white house but said the recklessness is due to his two daughters growing up. >> when the girls were young we'd spend our time with them. now, you end up allot. >> now, he says says it's been hard to schedule meetings on foreign policy during the world cup as all world leaders are tuned in >> hillary clinton's new memoir "hard choices" will not be sold in one of the world's largest markets, that would be china. she had a book signing in san francisco yesterday her publicer says china w

at what's left, try to reclaim what they can, and start the recovery and rebuilding efforts. >> john yang >>> president obama held a late night meeting with his national security team to consider u.s. options for slowing the advance of anti-government militants in iraq. he has already dispatched hundreds of american troops to secure the u.s. embassy in baghdad. meantime a new video which has not been verified appears to show rebel gunmen pulling over truck drivers questioning them about their religion and their affiliation and then executing them. >>> talk show host dr. mehmet oz heads to capitol hill this morning to testify about weight loss scams including ads for a diet supplement that used his image without his permission. >> reporter: dr. mehmet oz first touted coffee bean extract. >> it's a supplement that helps you burn fat faster. >> reporter: he never mentioned any product by name, but soon after some companies started advertising the supplement online. last month a federal trade commission sued a florida-based company behind some of those ads pure green coffee. alleging the comp

nbc's john yang has the latest. john, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt, that's right. another morning, another community in nebraska picking up the pieces after multiple tornadoes. and this morning we're learning more details about the victims of the deadly twin tornadoes. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: overnight, a new outbreak of tornadoes ripped through nebraska, hitting hard in farmland communities in the northeast part of the state. the national weather service tracked two large tornadoes near the towns of coleridge and laurel, nebraska.ese lateserikg 3 i the it'wn 75even%tr ter wnmother, candy m murpree and 4-year-old sister robin inside a mobile home. murphree was critically injured. the family moved from alabama just four months ago. callie's grandmother released a statement saying "callie's dream was to be a doctor and help people when she grew up. maybe god has a job for her now." a 74-year-old man was also killed when winds of up to 200 miles an hour hit. those who survived say they f